A de novo evolved gene contributes to rice grain shape difference between indica and japonica

Abstract The role of de novo evolved genes from non-coding sequences in regulating morphological differentiation between species/subspecies remains largely unknown. Here, we show that a rice de novo gene GSE9 contributes to grain shape difference between indica/xian and japonica/geng varieties. GSE9...

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Main Authors: Rujia Chen, Ning Xiao, Yue Lu, Tianyun Tao, Qianfeng Huang, Shuting Wang, Zhichao Wang, Mingli Chuan, Qing Bu, Zhou Lu, Hanyao Wang, Yanze Su, Yi Ji, Jianheng Ding, Ahmed Gharib, Huixin Liu, Yong Zhou, Shuzhu Tang, Guohua Liang, Honggen Zhang, Chuandeng Yi, Xiaoming Zheng, Zhukuan Cheng, Yang Xu, Pengcheng Li, Chenwu Xu, Jinling Huang, Aihong Li, Zefeng Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41669-w